As the new year begins your school district may be attempting to get ahead of the curve and fill current and future vacancies over these next very important months. You may feel the urge to grab the best candidates before your neighboring districts snatch them up. It is unfortunately the state of education at this point and no place in the United States is immune from this competitive landscape. In meeting with our eight grant districts to help coach them through this process, we are encouraging them to not lose sight of their ideal candidate profile even at a time when the natural response is to fill a position as quickly as possible. That short-term solution may be a long-term dilemma for your district or school if ideal candidate profiles are not being created and continually referenced. Thus, the development of an ideal candidate profile should be, if it isn’t already, the first New Year’s Resolution for any district moving into 2023. This month, we are excited to share a quick checklist on the development or tweaking of a district’s ideal candidate profile.
